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ACETANILJD, ANTIPYRIN, AND PHENACETIN. 



QUESTION 9. FOB WHAT AILMENT WAS THE DRUG TAKEN? 



QUESTION 10. WAS IT ORDERED BY A PHYSICIAN? 



Number of cases. 



These figures show that in more than one-half of the cases of poi- 

 soning the drugs were taken by direction of a physician. This fact is 

 especially significant in connection with the ever-increasing sale of 

 these agents, and preparations containing them, directly to the public. 

 In such cases the remedy is taken by the patient without proper med- 

 ical advice and supervision, and its administration is not surrounded 

 by the safeguards which ordinarily attend the ingestion of medicine 

 which has been prescribed by a physician. Under these circumstances 

 it is not strange that ill effects are observed with comparative fre- 

 quency. If, moreover, poisoning occasionally results from the use 

 of these remedies even as prescribed by the physician, should not the 

 greatest caution be observed by the laity in taking them without 

 the safeguard of medical advice ? The first and most important step 

 in the prevention of these accidents appears to be to impress on the 

 members of the community the fact that these drugs are by no means 

 harmless, but, on the contrary, are capable of producing serious ill 

 effects when used injudiciously. 



QUESTION 11. WAS IT USED INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY? 



Number of cases. 



